# Controls Lead, BMS

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $284k – $340k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** bms controls, sequences of operations, bacnet, tridium, alc, siemens, chilled water plant optimization, data center controls, telemetry, commissioning
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead BMS controls engineering for AI data center fleet. Own standards for sequences, points lists, network architecture; drive vendor strategy and team growth. Requires prior leadership of BMS/controls for data centers or large plants, with experience standardizing across portfolios.

## Job Description

## Lead BMS Controls Engineering

- Lead BMS controls engineering for the building controls layer of the reference design across the fleet.
- Own the controls standards: sequences, points lists, and network architecture written once, deployed everywhere.
- Drive vendor strategy: platforms, integrators, and programming standards held to spec.
- Grow the team and carry the hard sequences: plant optimization, failover, and demand response hooks.

## Requirements
- Led BMS or controls engineering for data centers or large plants.
- Written sequences of operations that operators trust at 3am.
- Standardized controls across a portfolio.
- Hold integrators to points lists and functional tests.
- Design for the data: telemetry and analytics as first-class outputs.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Tridium, ALC, or Siemens depth.
- BACnet at scale.
- Chilled water plant optimization.
- Commissioning interface.

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